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Post-Internet Lanscapes (PIL) is the first manifestation of agorama and the product of a collaboration between Juan Crespo, Enrique Tutor and amaCollective. It consists of a website that takes the form of a virtual institution.

PIL explores the possibilities of .gif and meme formats as a material suitable for artistic and cultural discourse, taking advantage of new media features through collection and archival methods. Based on ideas such as anachronism, dialogue, popular culture, disruption or folklore and behavior migrations, the project questions how these tendencies can interpret the vast cultural and creative internet manifestations, developing new approaches to social, historical or political points of view.

Our interests lie not only in the borders and limits between the artistic and the cultural, but in the differences which can define both collecting practice and the curatorial act. In other words, we will apply curatorial logic and methods to a non-artistic material, whose transference to the context of the World Wide Web is even more wild and unpredictable.

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JUAN CRESPO (Zaragoza, 1987)

works and lives in London.

He graduated in the Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, where he also studied an MA in “Artistic Production and Research”. He works on aspects linked to historiographical interpretation from an interdisciplinary and new media perspective, which is his central research.

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Felix Baumgartner set the skydiving world record on October 14th, 2012. The jump was exhaustively covered by international media and its promotion and all the attention the public gave it slightly reminded old human victories over the cosmos, as Armstrong did on the moon. Putin reaches the same height riding a crane taken from an already existing meme.

The series of memes "Putin rides" takes an image appeared in August, 2007 as its starting point. This image belongs to a set of photos shot during the president's summer holidays in Jakasia Republic. The photos were taken by Putin's personal photographer, part of his personal assistance team that's accompanying the president daily .

The coverage of Putin's personal life is obviously a modeling of the president's public image and part of Putin's social acceptance sharp planning, however endlessly disclaimed by his spokesmen.

Putin took russian presidency in year 2000 and there are expectations of him to keep in charge till ear 2025. He suddenly appeared on the political scene as the average russian man in clear opposition to Yeltsin's (his predecessor) degraded image. The media the party is publishing is suspicious of associating the traditional leadership values according to a patriarchal totalitarian power structure and supporting the very unhealthy relation between political power and religion in Russia.

Root image for the later reconfigurations shows naked chest Putin riding a horse, an attitude clearly connected to dominance, patriarchy, ability,... even to freudian sexual theories of admiration, how to make an icon out of a man. All this symbolism is actually understood by the online community and subverted as the series parodies these attributes transforming Putin into a kind of outlaw, a man above good and evil, that can do his will no matter what it is.